Harlow has a brand new Self Storage facility - Lok’nStore!

The centre is open for all and any storage enquiries  - business storage, personal storage, storage for organisations - you name it.  The great thing about Lok’nStore’s storage in Harlow is that you can just about store anything that you don’t have room for elsewhere.  Secure, dry and safe storage.

The new site in Edinburgh Way is opposite the major retailing area and next to a vast new distribution centre for a national electroncs retailer.

Whilst the four storey building was standing there for the last month poised for it’s signage to arrive, locals were wondering what such a big and such an orange building could be for!  Now they know…

Put your money in storage!

I just read that the family who started Motorola, the giant mobile phone company, have invested heavily in the self storage industry in the States, in and near Chicago.  The family investors ran Motorola for three generations and they think that storage is the next best thing.

The areas in which they are investing ($15.5m for two centres) have a lot of rented housing which they believe will be good for storage but they also believe that the high number of people who work and trade from their homes will give them a strong base of storage customers.

The trend is similar in the UK, where more and more people work at and/or from home and need the flexible storage space that self storage companies can provide.

If you would like to pop some Bubblewrap, please click here!

According to an article I read recently, Bubble Wrap was invented by a happy accident about 50 years ago.  American engineers, Alfred Fielding and Swiss-born Marc Chavannes, had been trying to invent a new form of easy-to-clean, easy-to-hang plastic wallpaper (this was 1957, remember, when plastic and ease were considered to be the future of home décor) when - pop! - they discovered that their strange creation made a brilliant lightweight packaging material.

Chavannes and Fielding founded the Sealed Air Corporation in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, three years later, and ever since the world has been wrapping delicate objects in their brilliant invention, as well as popping the bubbles as a form of stress relief or simply because we like the sound.

One of the joys of moving house or moving your precious possessions into self storage is to pop your new Bubble Wrap. As well as being incedibly useful, it’s fun to pop.

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